Editing organazized – Alex Gollner's 2007-2013 blog

Final Cut: Free plugin to fix small ‘Scrolling Text’ fault

If you want to use the ‘*’ character to create centred, movie-style closing credits, you cannot use any character with an ASCII value above 127 on the left-hand side of your credit list. If you do, the position of the * is determined incorrectly meaning that the centering doesn’t work, a character vanishes and the * remains.

This due to a bug in the ‘FindString’ fxScript function, the interpreted language that implements the generator.

The only likely 8-bit ASCII character you’ll want to use is the possessive closing apostrophe – as in Barry’s Mum*Jane Goldman which produces this result:

If you use£££££££££££££To the left*To the right
as your text in ‘Scrolling Text’ you get:

If you’ve been having these problems with Scrolling Text, my alternate free plugin might help.